wkearney99
Senior Member
With luck more vendors will move away from proprietary wall controls and toward using more generic tablet-like solutions.
But along the way there's the nagging problem of keeping the devices powered. What, if any, solutions or standards exist to address this?
I've seen a few iPad mounts, mainly ones with a big-ass magnet that grabs a shell for the iPad. It also appears these have an inductive charger. Nice, except for the high cost of the tablets, their closed nature and Apple's phenomenally annoying tendency of changing the form factor all the damned time. Not that other vendors don't have their own case size variations, of course, but their price-points often make it a reasonable plan to just pick up double the number of tablets as spares.
Is there anything like a generic induction charging setup for micro-USB connected tablets? Yeah, it'd be great to have it built into the tablet, but barring that, what about an add-on?
But, barring that, what about the possibility of using PoE wiring to provide DC power for USB charging? I've seen various gizmos offered that claim to do this, but has anyone used any of them? The trick being finding a way to have a pigtail cable for the device not left looking like crap on the wall if the tablet is taken down for hand-held use.
I'm sensing this may be a fine place to start dabbling in 3D printing...
But along the way there's the nagging problem of keeping the devices powered. What, if any, solutions or standards exist to address this?
I've seen a few iPad mounts, mainly ones with a big-ass magnet that grabs a shell for the iPad. It also appears these have an inductive charger. Nice, except for the high cost of the tablets, their closed nature and Apple's phenomenally annoying tendency of changing the form factor all the damned time. Not that other vendors don't have their own case size variations, of course, but their price-points often make it a reasonable plan to just pick up double the number of tablets as spares.
Is there anything like a generic induction charging setup for micro-USB connected tablets? Yeah, it'd be great to have it built into the tablet, but barring that, what about an add-on?
But, barring that, what about the possibility of using PoE wiring to provide DC power for USB charging? I've seen various gizmos offered that claim to do this, but has anyone used any of them? The trick being finding a way to have a pigtail cable for the device not left looking like crap on the wall if the tablet is taken down for hand-held use.
I'm sensing this may be a fine place to start dabbling in 3D printing...